The headlines.
MP must clarify spanking stance
"Hot on the heels of another scientific study about the deleterious effects of spanking children, Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar MP Kelly Block has entered the debate squarely on the side of corporal punishment."Ms. Block is an odd duck in the world of politics; she is a rookie MP who is media shy.
During last year's election, an election that she won by around 200 votes over the NDP candidate Nettie Wiebe, she was castigated by Regina Leader-Post political columnist Murray Mandryk for ducking debates. She felt her time was better spent doing other things, such as knocking on doors or sending out "...[an] inflammatory and misleading flyer she is circulating in her far-flung riding, Ms. Block asks her constituents, 'What do you think?' Whether parents should have the right to chose how to discipline their own kids, or do they agree with "Michael Ignatieff's Liberal Senators -- all spanking should be illegal."
"As Saskatchewan Children's Advocate Marvin Bernstein pointed out in an interview with The SP, the body of scientific evidence grows every year demonstrating that to hit children increases the likelihood of injury, mental health problems, anti-social behaviour, bullying and copied violence when these kids become adults."
But them's facts and Kelly Brock, like the rest of Le Gang Stephen Harper, doesn't cotton much to facts.
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